Southern Experience

Ferguson: Dear Beckham

A heartfelt Christmas reflection reminding us that the season’s real magic comes from generosity, kindness, and becoming joy for others.

Hotty Toddy News Services - December 14, 2025

John Hailman's From Midnight to Guntown: You Busy This Weekend?

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to...

10s of Oxford Are Artists, Teachers, Athletes, Entrepreneurs

Noted Oxford photographer Susan Foust grew up in the city and shows a keen appreciation for the history, values and classic architectural legacy of...

From Mississippi to Iraq, Beloved Hat Brings Rebel Home

In the South, there are three major religions that dictate lifestyle: Southern Baptist, Methodist, and College football. Each Sunday, we attend our various houses of...

Ole Miss Builds Safety Net for Students

Emergency 'family fund' will help students in crisis Everyone can identify with a life-changing crisis of one kind or another: sudden unemployment, death of a...

New Nightclub App is Brainchild of Ole Miss Entrepreneurs

Two former Ole Miss roommates have come up with a new Smartphone app that lets users instantly know what's going on at any bar...

Faulkner Fox-Hunting Portrait Made From Cofield Photos

This portrait of William Faulkner is based on a photograph by my grandfather J.R. Cofield. Five oil paintings were done from the photograph. One hangs...

UM Students Attend MSF Legislative Day in Jackson

The Ole Miss chapter of Mississippi First travelled to the capitol city for the group’s second annual Legislative Day. Mississippi First is a policy activism...

Revered Attorney and Professor Charles Walker Honored

Former students endow scholarship fund in Walker's name A stickler for grammar, a lover of clever songwriting, and a "natural explainer," Charles Walker has had...

Realtree's Jordan Supports Vaught Foundation

Businessman, TV host family make gift to athletics programs When Bill Jordan visited the University of Mississippi as a blue chip wide-receiver recruit in 1968,...

Fatback Philanthropy (with cake)

On Monday night, right about the time my wife Blair and I took seats at a pop-up dinner at City Grocery here in Oxford,...